What Newt’s Reading: A Fresh Sign of Google’s Excessive Power; Amazon Doubles Down on Excluding Some Conservative Nonprofits From Customer Donations; The Media Said Trump Didn’t Have a COVID Testing Strategy. The Media Was Wrong; and Kneeling During the Anthem Isn’t Protesting Against Racism. It’s Protesting Against America.
5 Stories to Watch Next Week: Facebook Removes Trump Campaign Ads for Violating Policy Against ‘Organized Hate’; Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Bid to End DACA; More fallout from John Bolton’s forthcoming book; Escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula; and Next steps in China-India border clashes.
Over the past couple of weeks, protesters and rioters have demolished statues and other historical monuments across America and Europe.
Newt reacts to the upcoming release of John Bolton’s tell-all book on Trump’s White House
The most important events this week were Joe Biden’s visits to the NAACP and California legislature, where he promised to pay reparations to the ancestors of slaves. This concept of paying for past sins is an impossible task to qualify or administer. It is just a tax on everyday people and a transfer of wealth. Eventually, paying reparations becomes everyone claiming discrimination in some form or another against everyone else. It would become an endless cycle of shifting money.
When I use the phrase “War Against America,” some might think I’m exaggerating. But look at Seattle, where an ANTIFA group has taken over a set of city blocks and a local police precinct. Look at the reactions of left-wing politicians and media. They are celebrating this as the start of the summer of love. What you’re really seeing are acts of lawlessness and violence. We have to confront this situation as a severe threat against the United States of America and decide if the country will survive as a constitutional republic with the rule of law.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has had his fair share of slip-ups. Everyone makes mistakes. However, how many is too many? The media and the Democrats often focus on President Trump’s tweets or off-handed comments. However, Biden is far from immune to foot-in-mouth disease.
What Newt’s Reading: Why Trump-Biden Race Is Much Closer Than You Think; Seattle ‘Autonomous Zone’ Has Armed Guards, Local Businesses Being Threatened With Extortion, Police Say; America, We Are Leaving; Tim Scott Leads on Police Reform; and The Spectator’s Notes.
Foreign policy usually comes down to a choice between bad and worse — or, at least bad and less bad, for those optimists out there. I know, it’s not exactly inspiring — but it’s the truth. The lesser evil may cause contention, even conflict, but ultimately it will be less destructive than the alternative. Such is the case with America’s effort to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Our choice this fall is not between President Trump and President Perfection. It is between President Trump and a nightmare which would end America as we have known it.
